Determining the genetic mechanisms involved in organismal response to environmental change is essential for understanding the effects of anthropogenic disturbance. The composition of the bacterial-feeding nematode community ...

Soil nematode communities are important components of the micro fauna in grassland ecosystems and their interaction with soil microbes affects important ecological processes such as decomposition and nutrient recycling. ...

Caenorhabditis elegans are free-living bacterivorous nematodes that naturally consume bacteria as food source. As an excellent genetic model, C. elegans has proven to be a successful system to study innate immune responses ...